A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Person in Every Nation; Particularly the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts of Time to the Present Period ... with a Catalogue of Their Literary ProductionsT. Osborne, J. Whiston and B. White, W. Strahan, T. Payne, W. Owen, W. Johnston [and 7 others in London], 1761 |
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